made to order shower ?

Post by **sezze** » April 27, 2011, 9:43 pm

Hi ,
I'm building a house in the Udon area and i'm going closer and closer to the finish line . I am now looking for hardened ( safety ) glass cut to spec or a shower made to spec ( glass of course) . The standard models available at the known stores are not my cup of tea . The design itself is not complicated , it is only bigger then the standard ones .

Anyone knows where in Udon i can find this stuff . I did look on the internet and all i find are shops or companies from BKK .

THX .

Post by **papaguido** » April 28, 2011, 5:39 am

No idea, other than trying the 2 glasses companies in town. One is located on the ring road heading to Nong Khai, before the intersection near Tesco.

The other is opposite Preecha night market.

Whatever you find out, please post here I may need in the future.

Post by **eagle** » April 28, 2011, 8:15 am

Why not make a wall or two using glass tiles (even with some picture)? Then install standard doors to homemade shower stall. I will be doing so, but leaving doors away.

Post by **hairyharry** » April 28, 2011, 10:02 am

There is a chap who does this about 40km outside Udon and for a third of the prices you see asked in Homepro and the like. Take the road from Big C towards Sakon Nahon. At the village of Non Meg turn left at the traffic lights towards Ban Dung. Approx 100 yards from the lights, on the left (just after the food stalls and shops) you will see his place. Give hime the measurements and he will give you a fixed price including fitting and he will happily show you the different materials he uses. He has built both my showers and also made my windows at a fraction of the price quoted elsewhere and with no problems!!!!

Post by **jackspratt** » April 28, 2011, 10:10 am

Just for clarification hh, would that village/town be Nong Mek?

Post by **parrot** » April 28, 2011, 10:26 am

"The other is opposite Preecha night market"

The name of this company is "KIT Group", on the right hand side of the road as you're heading toward the train station. Mr. Waew Meetham (แวว มีธรรม) speaks excellent English. Phone 042-343-432, 081-7082382. They also do a nice job on glass etching.

Post by **hairyharry** » April 28, 2011, 10:33 am

hi jackspratt to clarify yeah Non Mek on some signs/maps

Post by **sezze** » April 28, 2011, 10:11 pm

hairyharry wrote:There is a chap who does this about 40km outside Udon and for a third of the prices you see asked in Homepro and the like. Take the road from Big C towards Sakon Nahon. At the village of Non Meg turn left at the traffic lights towards Ban Dung. Approx 100 yards from the lights, on the left (just after the food stalls and shops) you will see his place. Give hime the measurements and he will give you a fixed price including fitting and he will happily show you the different materials he uses. He has built both my showers and also made my windows at a fraction of the price quoted elsewhere and with no problems!!!!

This would be fantastic news . =D>
I think there is a 3th glass maker in town , since i do not recognise the place where i got my glass from . They did not have tempered glass . The others , i will have a look at them .
Even the fittings for showerdoors are pretty easy to find , it's the tempered glass which is the hassle .

I'm not in Thailand right now , so it has to wait another 2 months but all tips will be looked at . Very usefull indeed .

Post by **fdimike** » April 29, 2011, 7:03 pm

To the best of my knowledge you will not be able to buy tempered glass made to order in Udon. The glass will have to be ordered from BKK in whatever size/design you desire. Once cut it can then be tempered. You cannot cut tempered glass after it has gone through the tempering/hardening process.

Post by **stoneman** » April 29, 2011, 7:25 pm

fdimike wrote:To the best of my knowledge you will not be able to buy tempered glass made to order in Udon. The glass will have to be ordered from BKK in whatever size/design you desire. Once cut it can then be tempered. You cannot cut tempered glass after it has gone through the tempering/hardening process.

The glass shop at the corner of Ring Road and Nong Khai highway can cut tempered shower stall glass in any size...They cut ours less that two months ago...

It is on Ring Road...left hand side(when traveling towards Global) just before the Nong Khai Highway...

Post by **fdimike** » April 29, 2011, 7:57 pm

Let me repeat myself. You cannot cut tempered glass. You can cut regular glass and then have it tempered afterwards. Any attempt to cut tempered glass will result in a pile of small pieces of glass at your feet. The whole point of tempering glass is for safety reasons. Regular glass when broken will result in sharp shards of glass which will cut like a very sharp knife. Tempered glass when broken will only result in a pile of small pieces of glass which will not be as dangerous. Glass can be tempered by either heat of chemical treatment. The shop may have tempered the glass themselves after it was cut.

Post by **sezze** » April 30, 2011, 5:35 am

Well , technically speaking you are right . I do not need to cut it . I need to order it in my size wanted . How they do it is not my concern .
A glass shop got it's glass from a factory and that factory makes hardened/tempered glass . Only thing they need to do is cut it down to size and send it back for tempering , which involves a cost .

Keep the tips coming . I am extremely happy with the tips right now since going to Bangkok for a glass shower is mighty expensive . A city like Udon , which is not small should have it without a problem , but finding it is the trick . I am sure i am not the only person in Udon who's got an actual shower with glass made to order .
Ring road shop is noted . thx.

Post by **eagle** » April 30, 2011, 8:44 am

fdimike wrote:Let me repeat myself. You cannot cut tempered glass. You can cut regular glass and then have it tempered afterwards. Any attempt to cut tempered glass will result in a pile of small pieces of glass at your feet. The whole point of tempering glass is for safety reasons. Regular glass when broken will result in sharp shards of glass which will cut like a very sharp knife. Tempered glass when broken will only result in a pile of small pieces of glass which will not be as dangerous. Glass can be tempered by either heat of chemical treatment. The shop may have tempered the glass themselves after it was cut.

In fact it is possible to cut tempered glass, but there is a big BUT!

Place your tempered glass into a craft oven and set the temperature to 900 degrees F. Once the glass has reached this temperature, turn the oven off and allow the oven and the glass to cool for at least eight hours before removing the glass from the oven. This process is known as annealing, and it removes stress from the glass. The glass is no longer tempered.

So having glass cut using this method makes glass not to be tempered even you start from the best tempered glass you can find.

Here below is one alternative. I did not find photo of those big tiles (60x60 cm). I like small ones more, because round corners are not possible with large ones. They have also full transparent, different colors, pictures etc. Of course, if you, sezze, want a simple plain glass, this is not for you.

Post by **sezze** » April 30, 2011, 5:13 pm

Multiple options are possible but it needs to be plain glass and not glass blocks .
The design itself is easy , rectangle 120 by 140 cm and a door in the 140 area ( at the corner ) , frameless is prefered .
Other option is not put a door in , so 1 glass being 70 wide and 1 glass being 120 wide .